Militant moderate, unwilling to concede any longer the terms of debate to the strident ideologues on the fringe. If you are a Democrat or a Republican, you're an ideologue. If you're a "moderate" who votes a nearly straight party-ticket, you're still an ideologue, but you at least have the decency to be ashamed of your ideology. ...and you're lying in the meantime.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Fair Play

A number of
years ago there was a nationally sensationalized video bomb purporting to expose
the unglamorous aspects of obtaining pate
de foie gras for the commercial market.Pate de foie gras is Froggish
for "paste of fat liver".Pate, as it's called, is a culinary
delicacy obtained from force-fed geese and ducks, whose livers go into
overdrive, thus becoming fat, while attempting to metabolize all the food they
are being force-fed.It's rather
unappetizing to think about, but it's just another of the myriad unappetizers
which are necessary in the human food industry.And as far as outright animal brutality goes, the process of fattening
up poultry liver for pate is
comparatively unremarkable.There's a
dozen things I can think of right now that I do on my small farm that are more
disgusting than sticking a food delivery tube down a duck's throat.

The notorious
video showed fat ducks waddling around, fat ducks having their heads tilted
back and being tube-fed a slurry of — essentially — creamed grain, what we humans
eat for breakfast if we are pretending to have a healthy start to our day, and
it showed an ill duck in a cage being unable to get away from a rat
attack.America's liberal sympathy
junkies all had a hissy fit of neatly choreographed spontaneity.Populist boob legislatures in various
jurisdictions overpopulated with liberal sympathy junkies went on pandering legislative
attack and outlawed the practice of force-feeding poultry in the first place,
or simply outlawed the sale, purchase, or use of pate de foie gras.

As a result
of this moronic moralizing legislation, America's chefs de cuisine staged their own neatly choreographed spontaneous
hissy fit. One of Chicago's more famous
master chefs, operating one of Chicago's more famous [and expensive]
restaurants, went so far as to publically announce that he would openly defy
the ban on pate imposed by Chicago's
Aldermen, who are virtually all liberal boobs.

Chicago's
city council rescinded their ban on pate
a few years later.

Over the
years there have been easily a dozen similar insider videos showing the inner
workings of slaughterhouses and the manner by which humans obtain their
hamburger.And, true to their script,
America's liberal sympathy junkies, after each new video, arranged a
spontaneous, choreographed hissy fit and wet their panties in public by the
thousand. Sadly, though, for the idiot
liberal sympathy junkies, America is too in love with beef to do about it like
was done with pate.No matter how you slice it, pate is a food for the culinary one-percent;
hamburger is cupidium populi.

But the
table has been set on video sneak attacks.If liberal ideologues can use this tactic to conjure up support for
their faux-pious liberal cause celebre,
then so can bluenosed conservatives use it to drum up sympathy for their own
faux-pious issues.Sure enough, James
O'Keefe, apparently believing that political corruption only exists on the
left, stuck a hidden camera in his navel a number of years ago, wandered into
an ACORN office with a female accomplice, and asked the ACORN operative how he
might be able to set up a human smuggling ring, a prostitution den, and vote
fifteen times for Barry Hussein in the '08 general election.The ACORN operative was only too glad to
assist in those illegal endeavors.The
resulting legislative attack defunded ACORN which had, to that point, gotten
its hundreds of millions of dollars in annual operating expenses from the
federal treasury.ACORN was thereupon
forced to decentralize its operation and rebrand itself into a hundred or more
local offices, all with different names, and all obtaining their hundreds of
millions in combined operating expense dollars in individual federal
grants.Corruptio populi.

But still,
what's good for the idiot liberal goose is good for the bluenosed conservative
gander, and idiot liberal geese have no claim to squawk and honk in moral
outrage when they are hoisted on their own fattened pate — as it were.

… which
brings us to today's video sensationalism.There are a handful of hidden camera videos floating around showing the
seamy underbelly of the heretofore unassailable iconic bastion of gender
politics: Planned Parenthood.It seems
that apart from obtaining their half billion dollars of annual operating
expenses from the federal treasury, Planned Parenthood supplements its income
by selling fetuses, in whole or in part, to researchers and/or ghouls.Irony compels me to inject an Eric
Cartman/Shakey's Pizza reference at this point … so consider it injected.

Planned
Parenthood is universally lauded, by those who laud it, as a "women's
health" operation dispensing birth control, gynecological exams, and
otherwise serving "the women of America". Yet there are no Planned Parenthood
storefronts outside major metropolitan areas.Planned Parenthood thus only serves urban — and therefore disproportionately
poor and disproportionately liberal and disproportionately black — American
women.And while they do indeed give gynecological
exams and write prescriptions for birth control pills, the lion's share of the
service that Planned Parenthood provides is abortion, a fact that bluenosed
conservatives continually harp upon and that idiot liberals continually
dissemble after.Planned Parenthood is
therefore a front-line operative in ensuring a reduced future crop of poor blacks
and liberals, exactly as its founder, eugenicist Margaret Sanger, envisioned
all those years ago when she derided blacks as being wholly inferior to whites
and needing to have their population controlled.Irony compels me to inject another reference
here, but I'll resist the urge and leave it as an exercise for the reader.

Federal law
prohibits federal dollars to be used to fund abortion, and Planned Parenthood
uses a common financial parlor trick to juggle their books on the matter.In the same way states which justified
lottery and, later, casino gambling in the name of public school funding never
saw a dollar-for-gambling-tax-dollar increase in public school funding as they
promised, Planned Parenthood never sees a dollar-for-federally-funded-dollar
increase in their own funding for non-abortion services.This juggling is childish, yes, it's verging
on unethical, and it's undeniably dishonest and disingenuous.But it's not illegal.

Also not
illegal — yet — is selling fetal parts, although it is disgusting, repulsive,
nauseating and, to many, emotionally wrenching.And while I have sympathy for those who consider Planned Parenthood to
be ghoulish beasts preying on poor, urban, black women, partly because I share
some of their sentiments, the fact of the matter is: I am a libertarian who
understands, when no one else seems to [or seems to even care], what it means
to have genuine political freedom.

In a nation,
such as ours, which is defined to have political freedom belonging to its
people, it does not matter one gilded god damn whether a 50.001% or 99.999%
majority of the population want the government to stop other people from doing the
disgusting thing they're doing; all that matters is whether the defined powers
of the government permit the government to get involved.If the defined powers of the government do
not include doing what the majority wants it to do, then the majority needs to
go pound sand.The government,
furthermore, needs to stop pandering long enough to tell the majority that what
the majority wants is outside the scope of defined governmental power.

Whether
bluenosed conservatives like it or not, there is no defined power of the
government to get involved in abortion.Or fetal part sales, for that matter.This means the government has no legitimate authority to stop abortions
regardless of how many think it abominable, nor to stop what is being done with
the resulting "tissue" irrespective of how many think that is abominable … which includes me.

It also
means — idiot liberals — that the government has no legitimate authority to
promote abortions, either."Not
involved" means just that.The
government is required to stay out of it.It may not prohibit; it may not promote.If this means that our major metropolitan areas will be overrun within a
generation by a superabundance of poor and mostly black youths all demanding
their share of the federal, Chinese-funded pie that the idiot liberals sliced
up in prior generations for the sole purpose of creating liberal voters, then
so be it.Our nation will simply run out
of money faster, is all.When China, in mid-century, seizes those parts of
California that Mexico could not annex as a collateral forfeiture for the sovereign
debt the US cannot repay, thank the liberals who made it happen.I plan to thank liberals from my retirement
residence in Baja.Liberals shit
everyone's bed on this; they need to own the future consequences of their
policies.And change the sheets.

In the
meantime, the next step in the video bomb script is for Congress to defund
Planned Parenthood — and the call has already gone out.The videos are so disturbingly callous that even
many of those who support abortion rights, like me, are sickened and appalled by
what Planned Parenthood has been doing.There are more hidden camera videos waiting to come out as well, but the
conservatives who took those videos appear to be barred from using the First
Amendment; a federal judge in California is abusing his authority by
prohibiting the release of any more videos.

No matter; the damage is done, and Planned Parenthood will soon cease getting
federal money with which they can juggle their books and thereupon backhandedly
perform abortions on poor, urban, black women.…and that's as it should be; Congress has no legitimate authority to
fund Planned Parenthood in the first place.The Constitution gives no power to Congress over the matter, so Congress
can neither prohibit abortion, nor promote it.Not even if abortion is disingenuously redefined as "women's
health".